Great News, Ninjas • You neden holes can play XBOX 360 against the Insane Clown Posse, Friday, October 30 starting at 4:00 P.M! Sick! It's the second best thing after committing a hate crime with the Insane Clown Posse. I hope the screen name Juggalo_69 isn't already taken (just kidding, obviously it is already taken).

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Oh, American Idol Arcade Game, We Hardly/Never Knew You

Have you ever had something taken away that you didn't even know was yours to begin with? It's a strange feeling. There's loss and remorse, but loss and remorse over what? Loss and remorse over what might have been! That's what. Such is the case with the American Idol Arcade Videogame DVD Factory Kiosk. In an ideal world, this game would be a coin-operated (or dollar-bill-operated, or whatever) booth in an arcade where you could sing karaoke to your favorite songs, and most importantly, A DVD OF YOUR PERFORMANCE WOULD BE RECORDED. Yesssss. It was in development, but it has been canceled. No one remains untouched by this economic crisis, not even the American Idol Arcade Videogame DVD Factory Kiosk. In any case, the game's programmers and developers aren't happy! Angry nerds! Well I am not happy either. Because just look at the glimpse these test videos provide of what might have been:

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Posted by Gabe at 11:30 AM in Video Games
Tags: American Idol | Kara DioGuardi | Karaoke | Paula Abdul | Randy Jackson | Simon Cowell

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Kids Narrate Video Games Into Their Own Insane Storylines The Darndest Things

I had never realized that Sonic and Tails were high school rivals who used the chaos emeralds (which were not chaos emeralds, probably?) to fight over who should or should not be in detention. And are not gay, but you might think they are gay, why would you think that, because they are. Also racist. This kid is seriously the best kid. He doesn't need friends to have fun, which works out pretty conveniently. The tales will go on forever, probably. (Thanks for the tip, Colin.)

Posted by Gabe at 12:00 PM in Video Games
Tags: Adventure | Kids | Nerds | Sonic The Hedgehog

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Cops Take A Quick Break From Raiding Drug Dealer's House To Play Wii Bowling. What?

Check these fun guys out. To serve (digital bowling balls) and protect (their high scores). From the AP:

Minutes after storming into the Florida home of a convicted drug dealer, some Polk county undercover drug investigators were caught on tape playing a Wii video bowling game for over an hour.

What? What are they supposed to do? NOT play Wii Bowling for over an hour? Be realistic.

Video evidence after the jump.

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Posted by Gabe at 4:15 PM in Justice, Video Games
Tags: Crime | Drugs | Police | Wii

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Tiny iPhone Steering Wheel Is Tiny Reminder Of Why Nerds Are Lonely

Nerds, cut it out! I know that you figure that life has been hard enough, what with the always being picked last and shoved into lockers and stuff and that you deserve to be free to find your fun wherever you can. And I'm not saying any of that is even remotely fair, we all deserve to live our lives without the constant threat of abuse (both physical and psychological) from people we haven't harmed in any way. And we all deserve to take whatever joy in life we can find. But you also have to take some responsibility at this point. You've created a steering wheel to play a $0.99 videogame on your telephone. It has a suction cup to make sure that there is no "unnecessary motion." You know where else there isn't any unnecessary motion? In your bedroom.

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Posted by Gabe at 5:45 PM in Free Advertising, Video Games
Tags: Advice | iPhone | iPods | Nerds

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This Is Your Videogame: Enviro-Bear 2000: Operation: Hibernation

For months, your friends and family have been very concerned about your well-being. You hardly ever go out anymore, spending almost all of your time holed away in your parents' basement, up until all hours, hunched over, irritable, putting the finishing touches on your videogame. People who genuinely care about you are like "this is not healthy, you are subsisting on a diet of Cheetos and Diet Red Bull, and your skin is as pale as Robert Pattinson's naturally hairless armpits. Your eyes are dark-ringed and sunken. There is a smell that comes off you. When was the last time that you took a proper shower? You hardly even bother to turn on any lights while you are down there! You have to turn on lights, you are going to hurt your eyes!" And you just turn to them, with your vampire face, with your bent claw-hands, dust at the corners of your colorless mouth, and you explain to them that such is the life of the computer programmer. "MYST WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY," you shout.

When they see this trailer for your videogame, they will probably stop giving you such a hard time, genius.

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Posted by Gabe at 2:45 PM in Video Games
Tags: Enviro-Bear 2000 Operation: Hibernation

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World Of Warcraft Gay Pride Parade

And it ends with a World of Warcraft gay pride dance party? This is an important reminder that sometimes nerds are the best.

The best part of this (uh, besides all of it?) is that this is the 5th annual Proudmoore World of Warcraft gay pride parade. 5th Annual! That'll do, internet. That'll do. (Via BuzzFeed.)

Posted by Gabe at 4:30 PM in Video Games, WebJunk
Tags: Homosexuals | Nerds | World Of Warcraft

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There's Going To Be An Antichrist Videogame For Some Reason

Remember Antichrist? Lars Von Trier's genital mutilation rom com? It's basically 500 Days of Summer, but with hyper-violent bourgeois malaise. Probably. I haven't seen it. But I feel really comfortable even without having actually seen the movie to think that maybe it doesn't need a videogame. Who cares what I think?! Not Videogame Town, that's for sure. From /Film:

Eden, as the game will be called, will be a first-person thriller/adventure game that invites players to confront their fears. Willem Dafoe will reportedly reprise his role in voice-over, though the game will not replicate the film, picking up afterward instead. (Not having seen Antichrist, I can't surmise what that means for Dafoe's performance.) Iversen says the experience will be "strong and very personal," "controversial" and that it "...must be your own personal hell - a bit like a nightmare version of 'Myst'."

Adds Vulture:

According to one source, the game will include "dead babies, psychological terror, mutilated genitals, and ultra fear." And if that didn't all sound ambitious enough, it will apparently "download grotesque news from the Web," manipulating game play based on real-time, real-world events.

Hahah. What? Obviously, "ultra fear" is the worst fear. But what is this "download grotesque news from the Web" nonsense? That is dumb. Unless Antichrist is about a married couple of grotesque newshounds, who go up to their cabin in the woods to take advantage of a highspeed internet connection to just download all of the grotesque news so quickly. I haven't seen it. It might be about that. (It's not about that.)

Posted by Gabe at 1:00 PM in Bad Idea Jeans, Video Games
Tags: Antichrist | Lars Von Trier | Willem Dafoe

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